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Some Doy; Some Day.
Somo clay: so many tearful eyes
Are watching for the dawning light'
So many, facing toward the skies,
Are weary of the night!
So many heart-sick prayers that reel
Or stagger upward through the
storm; .
And aching hands that reach and feel
No pressure true and warm!
So many hearts whoso crimson wirie
Is wasted to a purple stain;
And blurred and streaked with drops
of brine
Upon the lips of pain!
So many, helpless, trodden down
O'er-ridden by the strong;
So many, trying from the depths,
Too weak to cope with wrong!
O, come to them these weary ones!
Or, if thou still must bide awhile.
Make stronger yet the hope that runa
Before the coming smile.
And haste and find them, where they
wait,
Lest summer winds blow down that
way;
And all they long for, soon or late,
Bring round to them some day.
James Whitcomb Riley.
A Cure for Trouble.
. Yes, my dear friend, you have trou
blesvery real one3, too, to you, and
your friends are not wise when they
laugh at your complaints. You say
your friends advise you to count your
blessings, and that is very good ad
vice, if you are to go oh thinking only
of yourself. Others tell you to "take
your troubles to God;" that is not so
good; it strikes me, that it would be
a waste of breath. Don't you think
God knows all about it, without 'tell
ing? But you have the remedy for your
ills largely in your own hands. You
have been told, always, that the Great
Physician heals without money and
"without price; but if you read your
Bible, you will see that God does not
work on the "something for nothing"
plan; everything that is of value has a
price af.ixed to it So, in this case of
yours, the price will be that you must'
exert yourself to overcome some un
happy habits which you have, perhaps
unknowingly, and surely unintention
ally, built up about you. You are suf
fering from a complication of His
heart-hunger and self-pity. You havi
missed something, or think you have,
and you are sorry for yourself. Yon
let your troubles absorb all your
thoughts, and you reach out to your
friends for sympathy. Now that is
bad. Your .friends every one of them
have troubles of their own, and they
feel sore and ache under the pressure
of their own burdens, and when you
seek to lay yours, too, upon them, they
do not like it and strive to get away
from you. It is like offering fire to a
burn, or food to a full stomach. Did
you ever stop thinking of yourself
long enough to consider that?
Everything grows by that upon
which it is fed. If you feed your heart
and mind upon fretfulness, complain
ing, discontent, envy, and self-pity,
you will not only make yourself very
miserable, but you will drive all your
friends away from you. It is said that
the "Universe pays every one in his
own coin; if you smile, others smile
upon you; if you frown, you will bo
frowned at; if you sing, you will bo
urawn into gay company; if you weep,
you will find tears. Censure, criticism,
hate, selfishness will bo dealt out to
you in the measure in which it is giv
en, 'pressed down and running over.
If you have any dealings at all with
the wicked horde, it will take posses
sion of you."
Now, the best thing you can do is
to refuso to set yourself up as an ob
ject of pity. Why should you expose
the weaknesses of your nature? Don't
you know the world judges you by
your own judgment? And if you go
about telling people of your own
pusillanimity, your lack of ability to.
face your little trials, you will be
treated with the contempt which is
generally meted, out to moral weak
ness? You must look about you
find interest outside of your own trials,
and forget yourself persistently and
insistently. Cover your weak spots,
ahd put on a bright brave look. If
you d not feel bright, or brave, or
cheerful, make-believe, eyen to your
self, that you do. Try to find beauti
ful things; there are plenty of them.
Try to make other people happy, and
help others over the stumbling blocks.
"Do unto others;" and don't ask re
turn favors.
Constant dwelling upon our trou
bles makes them seem very large and
real, and every time we recount them,
they seem the more realities, and as
one clear-headed writer has said, "Wo
should get out of our sackcloth ahd
ashes, give ourselves a good scrub
bing to get the ashes off, and burn
the sackcloth," and, by the light .of
the bonfire, read the lessons of cour
age, strength and helpfulness that are
written all about us, if we would bur
clear our eyes to see them.
x But whatever you do, shut self out
Of your thoughts and lLye for some
thing higher than ministering to a
morbid. sense of your own unhappi
ness; if you would have the love and
sympathy of your associate, you must
be lovely and sympathetic yourself.
care to keep. So, of canna seed;
abutilons, and mahy other pot shrub1?
can be grown readily from seeds. A
date seed, planted in some warm moist
place will give you a "date palm"
plant if you are willing to wait its
growth. The Washington, or Filifera
palm, grows rapidly from seed; as
does the orange, or lernon. The seed-i
are as readily germinated as field
corn, and the foliage of the orange or
lemon is deliciously fragrant Th3
"Jerusalem cherry" a species of red
pepper, makes a very pretty pot plant
A few packages of seeds of peren
nials or biennials, planted in the
spring, will give you quite a lot 01
plants; and, with very little care,
these plants will live for years, grow
ing in size of clump and beauty as
they grow older. Many will bloom
the first season.
Many fine plants can be raised for
the window garden by planting the
seeds this spring
A Temperance Punch.
This is especially delicious in sum
mer, when mint is plentiful, but even
in winter -it is possible to get tho
mint frotti the butchers and grocers,
who keep it for mint sauce, and only
a small bunch is really needed to
flavor a large bdwl full of the punch.
Make a strong lemonade, allowing
five lemons and one cupful of sugar to
one quart of water. Roll the lemons
and slice them, letting the sugar stand
on the lemons for an hour before add
ing the water. To every quart of the
lemonade allow one quart of ginger-
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Question Box.
Our Floral Talk.
The florists' catalogues will now be
coming to us, and some of them con
tain colored plates which are perfect
gems of art; yet the florist can show
you many a real flower more beautiful
than any artist can paint them.
You and I, in our little pocket
handkerchief garden, with our crude
methods and not always favorable
"conditions," must be satisfied with
less perfection; but we can all have
flowers.
In the columns of many newspapers
and periodicals will bo found adver
tisements of "Collections" which the
florist will send 'you for a compara
tively small sum, and many of these
collections contain really valuable va
rieties; but the plants or bulbs, or
roots which go to mako them up ar
generally of small size, and Vill usual -1;'
require nursing from the Btart, in
order to havo them grow and prove
satisfactory.
If you are a flower lover, and un
derstand nursing them into growth,
these collections will repay the order
ing, and one can thus get a variety of
shrubs, vines, roots and bulbs for a
very small amount of money. But if
you know little or nothing of sucr
wqrk, it will pay you to buy the
larger size, if fewer of them.
Many things can be raised from
seeds, and by Investing your "flower
money" in several packages of "mixed
varieties," you will bo astonished at
tho quantities you can havo for a few
cents. A package of palm seed will
give you more plants than you will
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The conductor of the Homo Do
JR partment will bo glad to answer
questions concerning matters of
m your questions as brief as possible $
& and address all communications H
s? to "Homo Department, Tho Com- Sj
( moner, Lincoln, Nebr." JK
ale. Put both together in . a large
bowl or big pitcher, in which is a
piece of ice. Have a number of sprays
of mint, bruise the stems and lower
leaves between the fingers, so as to
bring out the flavor of the plant.
Stick these sprays into the punch
half an hour before serving.
It is well for the housewife to sup
ply herself with mint during the
summer, as it is easily dried, and will
serve many purposes. Home Companion.
Fish .Salad.
Boil halibut or other good white
fish, putting it on'ln boiling water, to
which has been added one teaspoonfui
of salt afJd one tablespoonful of vin
egar. It should cook about twelve
minutes for every pound. Take it from
tho water, and put aside to get per
fectly cold. When ready to mako
the salad, cut the fish into neat pieces
of uniform size, and place each upon
a crisp leaf of -lettuce.- Lay a sa- -ino.
which has been drained from the oil,
on top of every piece of fish. Mako
a good mayonnaise dressing, and jut
before sending it to table, -stir into
one-half pint of it two sardines,
stripped of their skin and flaked flne.
Squeeze a few drops, of lemon juica
on the sardines as the salad is about;,
to be served. One spoonful of tho
dressing may be put on' each rfortion
of fish before serving it, or tho may
onnaise may be passed in a bowl; with,
a ladle, that each may help herself.
Wbman's Home Companion.
Passing Away of Prominent 'Women.
But a few weeks ago, tho newspdr
pers chronicled the death of Mrs.
Julia Dent Grant, widow, of Gen. U. S.
Grant, ex-president
On the evening" of December 27,
1902, Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremonf..
widow of Gen. John C. Fremont, ani
daughter of Thomas H. Benton, Mis
souri's deceased4 statesman, died at
her home in Los Angeles, Cal., aged
78 years. Mrs. Fremont had been in
poor health for a long time. Thero
was a Christmas dinner, and a gen
eral exchange of presents, and, ifc
seems, the excitement was too muo.-
for her. She became quite ill, and
finally passed away on Saturday even
ing. Mrs. Fremont completed the me-'
moirs of her husbAnd and prefixed to
them a sketch of the life of her father.
She was the author of several other
hooks. The gatherings at her homo
were always interesting, and ther
were sure to be found among her
guests men of great brilliancy it
mind, whom it was an honor to know.
Her young years were spent in St
Louis, where she was greatly belovea,
but most of those who knew her ther.
havo passed away, and to but few s
she now anything more than-a. name.
Mrs. Mary Hartwell Catherwood, au-
I-OST SIGHT OF
A Most Important Aid to Education
An important point, of ten overlooked
by parents in bringing up children ,i3
the use of proper food as an aid to
education. " - - -
Cnilciren make wonderful progress
when scientifically fed.
A little woman in East Brentwood,
N. PL, says of her girlhood days, M
was never very rugged and cold
lunches and hearty evening meals and
improper food soon began to work
serious havoc.
Then came a period of self-boarding
while at college and it is now easy to
seo where, in the haste to" acquire
knowledge the true knowledge of
proper and nourishing food was neg
lected. The result, as may be imagined,
was indigestion, dyspepsia and constipation.-
Then followed a weary tlma
of dieting and, one after another, phy
sicians were consulted tifi hope o
permanent cure was abandoned. Then,
two years after leaving school, I en
tered a new home as a bride and hav-'
ing grown wiser through experience,
I resolved to use food in accordance
with hygienic principles. This was
also necessary as I could not eat any
thing at all rich.
We commenced to use Grape-Nutu
and soon became convince that it was
the most nutritious food we could ob
tain. I noticed an immediate improve
ment in my health, my indigestion
bscame less marked and eventually
left me for good.
It is now two years, that we have
eaten Grape-Nuts regularly, and I
was never as well in my life as now.
I have gained ten pounds in weight
and can eat, without" causing the
slightest distress, the richest kind of
food as well as anyone, the dyspepsia
is entirely gone and constipation never
troubles me.
This may not interest others, but it
is of great interest to us, for it is
our firm belief that my present good
health is due solely to the constant
use of Grape-Nuts and wo feel that
we have great reason to bo thankful
to tho makor of such a perfect and
delicious food." Name clven by'Pos-
ltum Co., Battle Creole, Mich.
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